I've included my dad's blog about our families connection with Silvertone. It's called, “THE FATHER OF THE SILVERTONE GUITAR”. Included as well, with permission, is an excerpt from an informative tribute that Nathan Daniel's son Howard wrote about his father & the Danelectro legacy. I've also added a page from my Grandfather's book titled "Tales of a Dinosaur". It's from his Auto-bio, the real Silvertone-Danelectro story told from his perspective.       As I stated before this ax is nearly perfect. These photos above & below show the ONLY cosmetic blemish area. In the picture below, I drew an arrow with Adobe Photoshop pointing to the exact area in question. The spot is a factory paint blemish. The mark occurred along the danelectro assembly line, way back in its birthplace in New Jersey, original production being 1963. This one has been in my family since then, nearly un-played & quite pristine!! Before the body was painted a small area was not properly sanded/smoothed before the original black speckled paint was applied. The area is so small its almost as if it could only be seen if studied with a microscope. However, when I list on eBay I tend to look at it like that. Every detail regarding condition, the good the bad & the ugly, must be mentioned. However, there is NOTHING at all ugly about this near-perfect beauty. She's as close to MINT as they come. MINT Volume & Tone Knobs. For 45+ years, unplayed! About Pristine as it gets. What else can I say? < These Frets Shine. Ultra WHITE Side-Vinyl Sears fall/winter catalog from 1962 My Grandfather was the principle buyer for Sears Roebuck Musical Instruments from 1959 to 1968. He eventually moved up the corporate ladder, all the way until he became a Vice President of Sears Roebuck in 1980! He worked equally along with Danelectro and Harmony. They were suppliers to him. He personally took part in the creative design process by working with the suppliers, figuring specifications and pricing of the guitars, to finalize the finished product to sell. A big part of his job was to market the guitars to the public, who at that time for the most part, were parents buying them for their kids. The Amp-Case was a revelation in terms of quality & affordability. Electric guitars were very expensive because of all the vital accessories that were needed to achieve sound. Basically, you couldn't have an electric guitar without an amp.. The revelation occurred when Joe put all the accessories together in a single inexpensive package. This was something that the whole country could afford. And so, with 50 bucks alone, Dad's across America could buy their sons an instrument to learn on, and they could discover the joys of rock & music. And yet, at the same token, if it didn't work out, there would be no harm done. In terms of money spent, at least they would have tried. Some kids would play a few chords for awhile, get bored & would then want a more expensive so-called "name brand" guitar. Back in the day Silvertone Danos hadn't gotten the true respect that they have earned today. I believe that these guitars are comparable to the best around.. They weren't supposed to be though. Was it luck? How can a experimental guitar built insanely cheap, with raw materials like masonite, and surplus lipstick tubes, sound any good at all? In my opinion, it was a combination of many things.. The magic of string tones traveling through the aluminum nut, across the rosewood fretboard, resonationing themselves through the lightweight & semi hollow masonite body, and finally, those same string tones careening forth and coming together to pierce wickedly as a thunderbolt, into the hand-wound single coil Lipstick Tube pickup. This is how Danelectro  ELECTRIFIED  the heavens!  Anyway some of these Amp-Cases eventually got thrown away, by the very same person who originally bought them (dad), but yet still, a lucky few were stashed away, as Amp-Cases hidden & frozen in the attics of time.. Only to be found again, discovered & uncovered as real time capsules. We now in this current era 45 years in the future, realize that these Relics ARE EXCELLENT Axes, all along. Silvertone Amp-Case Dano stand the test of time! Curtis D. Fisher Check out this Silvertone 606! (it's an heirloom & not for auction) Harmony gave this guitar to him in commemoration in 1962. It was the first one ever made in Harmony's new plant. The Silvertone 606 was Joe Fisher's first major selling Success. Joe explains more about it, and how the amp-case idea began in his book excerpt below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following is an excerpt from my Grandfather's auto-biography titled,       “Tales of a Dinosaur” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       MAGNETIC LIPSTICK TUBES??? Guitars were important because of their high unit volume and profitability. The Danelectro Company was a supplier of electric guitars and amplifiers. Nat Daniel was the founder, president and sole owner, who in addition to amplifiers also introduced the affordable solid body electric guitar in the early fifties. Today the Danelectro brand is a collector’s item among guitar aficionados. Nat was an innovator who understood the principle of “rigid control of expense,” an example of which was his innovative and inexpensive guitar magnetic pickups used in electric guitars. He made them from surplus lipstick tubes, bought from a cosmetics manufacturer. He inserted the electronics in the tubes and produced the lowest cost guitar pickup in the industry. An acoustic guitar, manufactured by the Harmony Company was our biggest unit seller in 1954, priced at $9.95 in Sears catalog. It was a beginner's guitar and many serious amateurs, some of whom later became professionals, learned to play on their Silvertone, stock number 605. I asked Nat if he could do something with a low priced electric guitar that would appeal to the same beginner's market as the 605. He did and we enjoyed resounding success with this exclusive innovation that included the guitar with an amplifier built in to the case, sale priced at $49.95. I think the reason I respected people like Nat Daniel was because he disagreed when he thought my ideas were off base, even though I, representing Sears, was his economic life-line. How different from the “Tell me what I want to hear not what you really think” malaise of my corporate life. Joseph N. Fisher   A picture of my Grandfather Joseph N. Fisher & Nathan Daniel. They are the Grand-dad-Electro's of the Silvertone-Danelectro's   Inventors.. Innovators..